The abduction of Barbara J. "Bobbie" Bosworth was captured on videotape by a surveillance camera inside a parking garage at Springfield Mall, where the 60-year-old woman was accosted by two men Saturday as she headed back to her car, police said yesterday. #

Sami al-Arian, one of the nation's most prominent terrorism defendants, was about to be released into his daughter's custody to await a new trial on contempt charges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg protested, saying that "in this particular culture," a woman could not prevent her father from fleeing. #

The former owner of a group of Washington area nightclubs and restaurants was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison for orchestrating a mortgage fraud scheme that investigators said was one of the largest ever prosecuted in Northern Virginia. #

When the Fairfax County detective interviewed a bank teller who'd just been robbed, something didn't seem right. Although the robber had handed her a note when he approached her window, the teller could not remember what it said a short time later. #

A high-ranking member of the MS-13 gang was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for plotting to kill a fellow gang member, the latest in a string of cases targeting the street gang, which is considered the region's largest and most violent. #